Gold-leafed figures with outstretched wings hover above serpentine vines, their bodies entwined with lion-like guardians. This folio transforms ritual text into a celestial garden, where devotion and nature blur.

How many winged nats face left, their gestures mirroring the flow of the script?

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https://clevelandart.org/art/1945.172.16.b

Gold leaf gleams against the lacquered surface, where winged nats weave through serpentine vines and lion-like guardians. Their gestures frame the sacred text as both protection and offering—what detail in their postures suggests reverence rather than mere adornment?

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https://clevelandart.org/art/1945.172.a

Gold leaf glows against the deep red lacquer, its tamarind-seed script dense and rhythmic as chant. These winged nats, half-hidden in scrolling vines, turn ritual text into a living cosmos—where does the sacred word end and the ornament begin?

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https://clevelandart.org/art/1945.172.12.b

Gilded lacquer glows between delicate floral borders, framing Pali script in precise tamarind-seed calligraphy. Winged nats and serpentine clouds suggest a cosmos where ritual and nature intertwine—how many creatures hide in the scrolling vines?

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https://clevelandart.org/art/1945.172.5.a